Télécharger le livre :  Why the West is Failing
Low growth has become the economic default in the West. While China and other Asian Tigers continue to steam ahead, western commentators either argue that stagnation is inevitable, ignoring growth in order to focus on other factors such as inflation or inequality, or...

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Parution : 2022-08-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Blue Labour
Labour has been on a wild ride over the past thirty years. NewLabour argued that we had no choice but to accept a globalized free market economy in which the race was to the swift, the open and the flexible. Corbynism reacted against this with a jumble of old school...

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Télécharger le livre :  Facial Recognition
Facial recognition is set to fundamentally change our experience and understanding of monitoring, surveillance, and privacy. Backed by powerful industry interests, this technology is being integrated into many areas of society – from airports to shopping malls,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-08-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Netflix and Streaming Video
Netflix and Streaming Video is the first book to provide a comprehensive foundation for understanding the business of subscriber-funded streaming video and its implications for the role of these services in culture. Drawing on Lotz’s two decades of research, it...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-07-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Post Society
Our societies are in transition, spurred on by a pandemic that disrupted many aspects of the social world we once took for granted. We’ve left behind the ‘solid modernity’ of the twentieth century and even the ‘liquid modernity’ so brilliantly analysed by Zygmunt...

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Parution : 2022-07-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Marxian Economics
More and more people have turned to Marxian economics in recent years. But isn’t it a defunct branch of the ‘dismal science’, disproven by the experience of the past 150 years, of no interest to anyone except historians? In this book, David Ruccio demonstrates why the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-07-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Infocracy
The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics.  Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars with bots and...

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Parution : 2022-07-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Zelensky
Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine’s highest office, he found himself catapulted into the role of war-time leader.  The former comedian has become the public face of his country’s courageous and bloody struggle against a...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-07-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Pleasure Erased
The clitoris was absent in anatomy books, in paintings and sculptures, absent in spirit and even body; it has long been the organ of erased pleasure. We assume that this oversight has been repaired in our times: today, the clitoris is not forgotten but honoured....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-06-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Multiculturalism
The idea that diverse cultural and ethnic groups should co-exist within a country and that assimilation should not be forced upon immigrant groups – “multiculturalism” – was orthodoxy 20 years ago. Today it’s coming under pressure. In this introduction to the political...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-06-16
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Télécharger le livre :  TikTok
Since its acquisition and rebranding in 2018, TikTok has become one of the fastest growing platforms in the world. Moreover, it's the first Chinese-developed platform to find mainstream international success, carving its own niche in the global short video industry. In...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-06-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Myth of the Wrong Body
The most popular narrative about transsexuality suggests that some people are born in the wrong body – that their bodies do not correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should therefore be transformed.  But in the view of the sociologist and trans...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-06-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Rekindling Life
As the environmental crisis accelerates, we can easily feel overwhelmed, but our feeling of powerlessness is partly due to a misunderstanding of the natural world. We tend to think of nature as a cathedral on fire, like Notre Dame engulfed in flames. But the living...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-06-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Thinking Like an Iceberg
When we imagine the polar regions, we see a largely lifeless world covered in snow and ice where icebergs drift listlessly through frozen waters, like solitary wanderers of the oceans floating aimlessly in total silence. But nothing could be further from the truth. This...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-06-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Everyday Data Cultures
The AI revolution can seem powerful and unstoppable, extracting data from every aspect of our lives and subjecting us to unprecedented surveillance and control. But at ground level, even the most advanced ‘smart’ technologies are not as all-powerful as either the tech...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-06-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Digital Labor
While the working lives of tech entrepreneurs and delivery platform workers seem far removed, both are engaged in digital labor. What unites their experience and allows us to speak of their work under the same umbrella? Is it even possible to talk about digital labor as...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-06-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The Invention of Green Colonialism
The story begins with a dream – the dream of Africa.  Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants and giraffes reign as lords of nature, far from civilization – all of us carry...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-06-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Being with Data
Once the rarified stuff of scientists and statisticians, data are now at the heart of our global digital economy, transforming everything from how we perceive the value of a professional athlete to the intelligence gathering activities of governments. We are told that...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-06-01
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Télécharger le livre :  History of the Adriatic
The Adriatic is ‘the small Mediterranean’ – a sea within a sea, part of the Mediterranean and at the same time detached from it, a largely enclosed sea with stunning coastlines and a long history of commercial, political and cultural exchange. Silent witness to the flow...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-05-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Animal Crisis
Leading philosophers Alice Crary and Lori Gruen offer a searing and desperately needed response to systems of thought and action that are failing animals and, ultimately, humans too. In the wake of global pandemics, mass extinctions, habitat destruction, and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-05-20
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